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Tacoma is not 'small town america'. It is not Samnang Kok's fault he doesn't live in south central. Samnang Kok doesn't sound like a middle-class white kid's name either. Shootings are shootings, no matter where or who they happen to.
I don't think there is a special new room where journalists sit and decide what stories they cover depending on race and class. If it's shocking, journalists are all over it. Street shootings are, sadly, commonplace, and not particularly shocking anymore. A shooting in a school however, is, as it's not south central- it's a place of education, more or less. This is why the media is all over it.
At the end of the day, media coverage doesn't really matter. As I said, shootings are sad no matter what.
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